Highway To The Moon
The pathway to the first moon landing ran through Texas, and the marks of that journey left deep and lasting impressions on the Lone Star State.
The pathway to the first moon landing ran through Texas, and the marks of that journey left deep and lasting impressions on the Lone Star State.
NASA’s 1,620 acre Manned Spacecraft Center was the heart of it, but 100 aerospace companies, thousands of engineers, and even more thousands of families and businesses turned a Texas oil…
“We will not abandon our dream. We will never evacuate the frontiers of space to any other nation.”
NASA’s Gemini spaceflights, and the early Apollo missions, laid the groundwork for man’s first steps on the moon.
Though woman played many roles in the Apollo program, people were generally unaware that the Manned Spacecraft Center team included female engineers and mathematicians.
“It’s no accident that Elon Musk is going to Mars, or Jeff Bezos is doing what he’s doing. They were influenced by seeing [Apollo]; that’s where it all comes from.”
“Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras. … What kind of asylum can they offer and how can people be safe there?”
The Permian Basin leads the U.S. in oil and gas production. With drilling expanding into more areas, what does it mean for West Texas?
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